Zone Girl
Olowookere Devost
Under Anne's leadership, Girl Scouts of Black Diamond transformed an underused corner of Charleston, West Virginia into the Girl Zone - a thriving youth center and the headquarters of the Council. The space now houses dozens of summer day camps, get-togethers, and overnight stays, providing girls with opportunities to build their self-esteem, leadership skills, and confidence. It is a safe, fun space for girls to learn, play, and be themselves - an important resource Anne championed for the community and for West Virginia girls.
Please join Girl Scouts of Black Diamond and the McCuskey Family in honoring and remembering Anne for the inspiring and dedicated community leader she was. You may donate here or please reach out to Beth Casey at 304-553-7028 to discuss different amounts or different giving options. She may also be reached at beth....@bdgsc.org.
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"Little Girl Lost" is episode 91 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is about a young girl who has accidentally passed through an opening into another dimension. Her parents and their friend attempt to locate and retrieve her. It is based on the 1953 science fiction short story by Richard Matheson. The title of the episode comes from a poem by William Blake, from his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Missing: one frightened little girl. Name: Bettina Miller. Description: six years of age, average height and build, light brown hair, quite pretty. Last seen being tucked in bed by her mother a few hours ago. Last heard: 'ay, there's the rub,' as Hamlet put it. For Bettina Miller can be heard quite clearly, despite the rather curious fact that she can't be seen at all. Present location? Let's say for the moment... in the Twilight Zone.
A married couple, Chris and Ruth Miller are awakened by the whimpering of their little daughter, Tina. Chris goes to see what the trouble is. Their dog, Mack, begins to bark from the backyard. Chris cannot find Tina either in or under the bed, even though her pleas for help seem to be coming from nearby, yet far away. He calls Ruth into the room, and she is similarly mystified. Chris phones his physicist friend, Bill, for help, and opens the door to let the incessantly barking Mack into the house. The dog runs under the bed and disappears, but can still be heard barking, again close, but far away.
Bill arrives and helps Chris move the bed so that he can physically scan the area where it was, marking the legs with books. When this proves fruitless, Bill examines the wall behind the bed. Finding that his hand can pass easily through the wall and to another dimension, he draws marks on the wall outlining the apparent boundary. He explains to Chris and Ruth that sometimes lines in a three-dimensional universe run parallel with, rather than perpendicular to, the fourth dimension. He warns them that they know nothing of what might lie beyond this portal, and should they follow Tina into the fourth dimension, they would only become hopelessly lost as well, since it is not manifested like the three humans can perceive.
Chris calls to Mack to guide Tina back. Mack leads Tina to the source of Chris's voice, but they still cannot find the entrance. Despite Bill's warnings, Chris reaches into the portal and falls into the fourth dimension, an abstract, crystalline landscape that seems distorted, and constantly turning upside down and sideways. Bill advises him not to move. Chris sees Tina and Mack and calls them towards him. Bill calls for him to hurry. When Tina and Mack close in on Chris, Bill grabs them and pulls them back into the bedroom. Ruth rushes Tina to another room.
Bill explains that Chris was only halfway through the portal, despite Chris's perception that he was standing up in the new dimension. Bill was in fact holding onto Chris the entire time. He was telling Chris to hurry because the portal was closing. Bill knocks on the wall, showing that the portal has completely solidified and closed. He explains that if Chris had taken a few more seconds, the two halves of his body might have become trapped in different dimensions.
The other half where? The fourth dimension? The fifth? Perhaps. They never found the answer. Despite a battery of research physicists equipped with every device known to man, electronic and otherwise, no result was ever achieved, except perhaps a little more respect for and uncertainty about the mechanisms of the Twilight Zone.
Matheson wrote the short story based on a real-life incident involving his young daughter, who fell off her bed while asleep and rolled against a wall. Despite hearing her daughter's cries for help, Matheson's wife was initially unable to locate her daughter.
"Little Girl Lost" was parodied in "Homer3", a segment of "Treehouse of Horror VI", an episode from the seventh season of The Simpsons. In the episode, the two-dimensional characters attempt to retrieve Homer from the third dimension. Homer likens his entrance to the third dimension to "something out of that twilighty show about that zone".[2]
An area of the queue for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror theme park attractions in California and Paris uses subtle effects to simulate air currents coming out of a solid wall, as well as playing a subtle recording of the little girl's dialogue at intervals. In the exit area of the Florida version of the attraction, there is an area of the wall outlined in chalk, exactly like the portal in the episode. It has also been cited as one of the most influential episodes in the development of the ride, most notably with the "5th Dimension" scene in the Florida version.
Although not intended by the writers, the hole into the other dimension was later given as an example of a "Riemannian cut",[4] which is a type of wormhole formed when two spaces join at the same set of points.
Bernard Herrmann's score for the episode is written for an unusual chamber ensemble of four flutes (doubling on piccolos, and alto and bass flutes), four harps, percussion (one player, utilizing tambourine, tam-tams, and vibraphone), and viola d'amore. It has been performed as a concert suite by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra.The episode's director, Paul Stewart, played the butler Raymond in the first film Herrmann scored, Citizen Kane.[5]
The Friend Zone Girl is an average height, slim & curvy, pink haired woman. She has a lot of girly characteristics, comparatively large head as compared to the other cast, chubby face with a mole on her right cheek, long wavy pink hair, curly sideburns and a small nose. She also has a tranquil look to her, with half-closed eyes and elegant mannerisms.
She usually wears a pale brown bottleneck sweater, which is greyish-blue at times (still photos in Friend zone), a dark brown mini skirt (pencil skirt) matching with her dark brown cuff ankle boots and a pinkish-white hairband with a flower on one side of her head. She also wears mascara & pink lipstick, which red on other places (still photos in Friend zone).
She has friends, Benatar and Brock (Mr. DoucheBag) being 2 of them, of whom she seems only like Brock as a romantic partner and Benatar only as a friend, hence the song, "FRIEND ZONE".
Even though, having no interest in Benatar, she still cares about not hurting his feelings, as she never explicitly tells him about having no interest in him, so the thing never ends and continues for 60 years.
She enjoys hanging out with friends, watching movies, dinners, going to amusement parks, etc. As part of her girly personality, she gets scared easily as shown in mentioned music video, where she, frightened by a small killer clown, hugs Benatar for comfort.
One her elegant side, she's always well kept and calm.
Narrator: Missing: one frightened little girl. Name: Bettina Miller. Description: six years of age, average height and build, light brown hair, quite pretty. Last seen being tucked in bed by her mother a few hours ago. Last heard - "Ay, there's the rub", as Hamlet put it. For Bettina Miller can be heard quite clearly, despite the rather curious fact that she can't be seen, at all. Present location? Let's say for the moment - in The Twilight Zone.
Gunny receives word about a missing girl left behind in Lamang during the evacuation. He'd like you to check out a spot in Tiger Bay, a motel in the center of the city, where she was last seen. Getting to the motel is easier said than done, however. You'll require a lot of ammunition and meds to make the trek from landing zone Juliet 3 to the motel in question.
The easiest route we found to the motel in question starts at landing zone Juliet 3, which you can find on our interactive map. It's just to the immediate south of the city, in a rice field by the road. Of course, this is Tiger Bay. You'll encounter a lot of resistance between the landing zone and your objective, and it's best to travel in a group of three or more.
The good news is this section of the city offers a lot of cover. You can skirt through the buildings, using backyards and alleyways to minimize contact. Once you reach the motel in question, enter the first door from the right. Inside, you'll find a pink piece of paper on the table. This paper is the intelligence you're after!
Just to be clear, I am by no means a flower expert. I just love getting my hands dirty and sharing what works for me in hopes that it will work for you too. I encourage you to do zinnia research like I did (mainly on google and Pinterest) to see how they will best work for you and your garden zone. We live in northern Colorado which is zone 5b, but these tips are very general and will work for all zones.
Your seed packets will have spacing guidelines to follow or you can scatter them as you like. In about 2-3 weeks you should see seedlings popping out! Blooms will vary and depend on your climate, but I saw blooms 6 weeks after planting.
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